"If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive."

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Raymond Chandler

#Community Quotes #World Quotes #Tough Quotes

“You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.
“Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.”
“We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.”
“I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.”

Source : "'Straight Arrow' Governor 'Eliot Ness' Spitzer (?-NY)". www.newsbusters.org. March 10, 2008.
“Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'”
“We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.”

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